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| Teacher-Intitiated
Grant Projects Serving
JSD Students during the 2002-2003 School
Year |
First
Amendment Schools—Butler Middle School
First
Amendment Schools grant of $12,000 to Butler Middle
School for each of three years. First Amendment
Schools Educating for Freedom and Responsibility
is a national initiative "designed to transform
how schools model and teach the rights and responsibilities
of citizenship that frame civic life in our democracy."
| Other
Grants Serving JSD Students |
Intel
Corporation—Crescent View, Eastmont and Midvale
Middle Schools
Camille
Baker, Heather Young, Barbara Gentry, Pam Giles
Award
of $77,056 in technology support for Phase II of
the Middle School Math/Science Teaching and Learning
Improvement Project to provide mobile math/science
computer labs for three additional middle schools.
Intel
Foundation—Jordan School District
Camille
Baker, Heather Young, Barbara Gentry, Pam Giles
Intel
Foundation grant award of $100,000 to support Phase
II of Jordan School District's Middle School Math/Science
Teaching and Learning Improvement Project. The grant
will allow for the Project's math/science technology-integration
specialist to continue to mentor and work with project
teachers and their students during the 2002-2003
school year, expand professional development to
three additional middle schools (Crescent View,
Eastmont, and Midvale), and develop and pilot technology-integrated
curriculum that aligns with the State Core Curriculum
for middle school math and science courses taught
in Jordan School District.
Intel
Corporation—Jordan School District
Ann Bjorkland, Kelly Dumont,
Shelly Nordick, Margo Shirley
Intel®
Teach to the Future grant award, with support from
Microsoft, for the purpose of training 15 Master
Teachers to teach 600 to 900 additional JSD teachers
during the next two years how to integrate computer
technology into their existing curriculum. Information
concerning training opportunities in or near your
school is available through your principal. For
a list of Master Teachers or more informaiton, click
on Principal's Corner.
21st
Century Community Learning Centers--Jordan School
District
Third
year of federal 3-year grant award of $5.3 million
to support community partners' collaboration efforts
to meet the needs of students at risk of academic
failure, provide services to at-risk families, and
address the needs of Jordan District's urban community
through the establishment of community learning
centers. Through the support of this grant, Jordan
District, in partnership with Boys and Girls Clubs,
is establishing Community Learning Centers in the
following schools: Hillcrest High School, Midvale
Middle, East Midvale Elementary, Midvale Elementary,
West Jordan Middle, Columbia Elementary, Heartland
Elementary, Midvalley Elementary, Union Middle,
Copperview Elementary, Majestic Elementary and Mountview
Elementary. In addition, the grant will support
the establishment of a health care clinic in the
Midvale Boys and Girls Club in partnership with
Utah Health Care Services; and provide a Family
Resource Center where the public can access community
and agency partners for "one-step" information and
support.
Comprehensive
School Reform--Copperview Elementary School
Federal
grant award of $50,000 (third year of three-year
grant) to provide ongoing support for implementation
of Urban Learning Centers Comprehensive School Reform
Model. |